This is a Chinese folk love story, China is a romantic country with more than 5000 years of civilizations. Many stories and legends live with Chinese people from generation to generation. The following is a Lady Meng Jiang story, she was a legendary character during the Qin Dinasty who went to the Great Wall in search of her husband, a conscripted laborer of the Wall. She learned that he had died of hunger and exhaustion while building the Wall.
Lady Meng Jiang is also known as Meng Jiang Nu.
In the Qin Dinasty, there was a good-hearted and beautiful girl named Meng Jiang Nu.
One day, when she was doing her housework in her courtyard, suddenly she was discovered a man was hiding under the grape rack. She was very scared and she wanted to shout aloud, but the young man waved his hands and asked for help. ''Don't yell please, and save me. My name is Fan Xiliang. I am here to seek refuge.''
''At that time.....
Qin Shi Huang Emperor was building the Great Wall. He deployed troops to catch civilian young men to help to complete the gigantic project. Many workers were tired or starved to death.''
Meng Jiang Nu agreed to save him. She knew that he was a handsome and well-learnt gentleman. She had the feeling of adoration of him and he loved the girl too. So in love and they asked for their parent's consent, they were to be married.
On the day of weddings, red lanterns and beautiful decorations were in their family. Happy guest crowded in the dining hall. When the darkness came, all the guests returned home. Suddenly the ferocious soldiers entered their house. They didn't say anything, they just arrested Fan in locks.
Fan Xiliang was transferred to the Great Wall construction site to do harsh labor works. Heartbreaking sadness was fully filled the heart of Meng Jiang Nu. She missed her husband very much. She thought that instead of staying at home to waits the news of him, she would like to search him in the construction site.
She tidied up her baggage and set out to the Great Wall. On the road, she weathered many hardships because of dangerous landscape and harsh climate, but she didn't cry and feel pain. The spirit of love had supported her physically and psychologically.
She reached the construction site, but she had still to find him in every small site. For a long time she couldn't find him. At last, she asked a migrant worker,''Is Fan Xiliang here?''
''Yes, he is here and he is a newcomer, but he is dead and his corpse is buried under the foot of the wall,'' the migrant worker answered.
It was like a big thunder in the sky. Meng Jiang didn't see anything, but darkness. She suddenly burst into tears, she cried mournfully for three whole days and nights. The Heaven was moved by her tears. The sky turned dark and the wind grew strong. A part of the Great Wall was collapsed and the body of Fan Xiliang appeared. The tears of Meng Jiang Nu dropped in the distorted face of her beloved husband. Meng had finally seen Fan Xiliang but he didn't see her, because he was killed by Emperor Qin Shi Huang. She then buried her husband and jumped into the sea out of grief.
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